Arab Cultural Awareness

ResourceShelf's DocuTicker is full of informational documents from government agencies, NGO's, think tanks, etc. I recently started checking this site and it's had some pretty good reports. One of them is from the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence US Army Training and Doctrine Command: Arab Cultural Awareness: 58 Factsheets. Some noteworthy facts:

1. Close to 60% of earth’s oil reserves are at or near the Arabian Peninsula.
2. To be an Arab, like an American, is a cultural trait rather than racial.
3. 12% of the world’s Muslims are Arabs.
4. Turkey and Iran, not Arab countries, are the most populous Muslim nations in the Middle East.
5. Sunni and Shi'a are the two main branches of Islam.
6. Sunni are the vast, dominant majority of Islam and their worship is more conservative or orthodox than Shi’a.
7. About 10% of all Muslims are Shi’a. They are in the majority in Iran, Iraq and Bahrain.
8. The law of Islam is known as “Sharia” which means “the way”.